By Reuters CHICAGO/WINNIPEG, MANITOBA – At a Wayne Farms chicken processing plant in Alabama, workers recently had to pay the company 10 cents a day to buy masks to protect themselves from the new coronavirus, according to a meat inspector. In Colorado, nearly a third of the workers at a JBS USA beef plant stayed […]readmore
VOA News by Reuters CHICAGO, ILL. – Smithfield Foods, the world’s biggest pork processor, said on Sunday it will shut a U.S. plant indefinitely due to a rash of coronavirus cases among employees and warned the country was moving «perilously close to the edge» in supplies for grocers. Slaughterhouse shutdowns are disrupting the U.S. food […]readmore
VOA News By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON – The top U.S. infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, warned Sunday there is an “extraordinary risk” of the further spread of the ravaging coronavirus if the United States is reopened to business and returned to a sense of normalcy too quickly on May 1, as President Donald Trump is […]readmore
By VOA News Severe storms that moved across the southeastern United States on Sunday into Monday killed at least 18 people. The storms brought heavy rain and strong winds, with 34 reported tornadoes in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia and Tennessee leaving hundreds of homes ripped to shreds and at least 860,000 people without electricity. Dozens […]readmore
VOA News Two U.S. astronauts say it’s hard to comprehend the changes on Earth that have occurred due to the coronavirus pandemic, as they prepare to return from the International Space Station. The astronauts, Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir, have been in space for more than half a year, having left Earth before anyone had […]readmore
VOA News By Eunjung Cho WASHINGTON – In less than a month, more than 5,000 Americans have joined a class-action lawsuit in Florida seeking reparations from the Chinese government for COVID-19 damages. The plaintiffs claim to have suffered huge losses due to Beijing’s negligence in containing the virus. Similar class-action lawsuits also were filed in Nevada […]readmore
VOA News By Katherine Gypson WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate failed Thursday to pass additional funding to help struggling American workers dealing with the impact of the coronavirus. The attempt came less than two weeks after U.S. lawmakers passed the largest economic relief package in the country’s history. The measure advanced by Senate Republicans would […]readmore
VOA News By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON – Another 6.6 million U.S. workers filed for unemployment compensation last week as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the American economy, the U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday. The new figure pushed the three-week total to more than 16 million workers looking for financial assistance, with millions more laid-off […]readmore
VOA News By Kane Farabaugh WALNUT, ILLINOIS – In mid-March, Illinois high school math teacher David Lind wasn’t feeling well and knew he needed a medical opinion. An eventual diagnosis began with a few mouse clicks. “I was sleeping a lot; my wife could tell that I was really run down,” he told VOA by phone, […]readmore
VOA News By Reuters Tom Brady and wife Gisele Bundchen donated funds to provide 750,000 meals to those in need in their new community of Tampa, Fla. Feeding Tampa Bay announced the donation via Twitter on Tuesday. «We welcome @TomBrady, @giseleofficial and their family to our community and thank them as they #StandwithFTB by providing 750,000 […]readmore
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